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WW Photo 2007-04-09 18:11:00 Karolee asked if that was a pic of The Sioux Falls. Sure was!! Eric used some photoshop magic to give it a blue tinge, cause it was freezing that day.It was freezing here on Wednesday, and the look of the pic, reflected how I was feeling. :) Read more:Photo
Little People, Big World 2007-04-09 15:58:00 Anyone else watching this show?? The season premiere is tonite. They've moved it from Saturdays to Mondays. We'll be watching it and taping HIMYM, since J really likes Little People too. Read more:World
Spring? 2007-04-09 15:52:00 Uhhh, I thought it was supposed to be spring? It's freezing here. No egg hunts for us as it was something like 1 degree out. Of course We were taunted with clear blue skies and sunshine. :-PIt's supposed to snow tonite/tomorrow. I'd rather it do it today. Then I wouldn't have to drive in it, since Johanna is off from school.Did you all have a nice Easter?Ours was pretty good. I seem to have caught whatever it was that gave Ava Croup, so I've been feeling puny again. I had a couple good days and then WHAM! At least I'm already on an antibiotic for the sore boobage.Yesterday I had the hubster attempt to take pics of the girls' in their Easter get-ups. Yeah. I'll have to post a few of those. He did get 2 good ones, the rest are just funny. LOLI need to work on responding to all the nice WW comments I got last week (slacker, I know. I've been thinking about everyone and thinking of all sorts of things I want to write about, and then I get busy and forget or end up just feeling pun Read more:Spring
Photo Hunters 2004-01-01 18:27:00 this is just a post for me to be able to add myself to the blogroll. Read more:Photo
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As promised... 2007-04-11 03:08:00 Easter pics....So ya, that went well, don't you think? ROFL
As The World Turns 2007-04-11 01:54:00 What's better than attending an ATWT fan club luncheon? How about winning the "Win a Day With Brad & Katie" contest?? Not only will you get to have Terri Columbino (LOVE HER) and Austin Peck COME to you house and CLEAN for you, but you will also receive a big fat check for $5,000! Sound like a fun time? you can Click here to enter!I wonder if I win, if I could convince Austin to clean my shower with his shirt off?? Maybe wear a sexy little shower cap?? What do you think?? :drool: Read more:World
5 Questions... 2007-04-11 01:42:00 I'm being interviewed by Mood Swinging Mommy! go me!She writes: Hi Cyndi- Thank you for playing! Here are your questions:1) What inspired you to start a blog?Uhhh, all the cool kids were doing it? LOL I've been online since May of 1990. I started off on Prodigy, moved to GEnie, went to AOL, then to various local ISP's until broadband came along. I've dialed into BBS's, participated in large and small groups, run message boards,(still do) fan sites, my own personal website...Actually back then, the website really wasn't far off from a blog, tho that was before blogs. I would try and update it frequently and write little blurbs about the family (Just the hubster and I back then, and the pets) and post pics.A gal from one of the message boards I was on had started a blog and a lot of us were like What the HECK is a "BLOG"? so we read hers and then decided we'd start one too. It's funny reading that one. You can still find it here. Then I went to Xanga for a while, cause the forma
Yeah, ummm 2007-04-11 01:20:00 So, you know how this morning I was saying my friend Laura's area was going to get more snow than us?Yeah, well uhhh, scratch that.It started snowing like crazy this afternoon and hasn't stopped.They're now saying 5-8 inches. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells... 2007-04-10 13:13:00 ... Oh sorry, I got caught up there for a second thinking it was December when I woke up and saw all the snow outside! LOLI shouldn't complain too much tho. My friend Laura lives a bit north of me and they are supposed to get more than we are. Supposedly it's going to switch to rain sometime this afternoon. However, looking at the forecast for the rest of the week, Thursday is the ONLY day it's not supposed to snow or snow and rain. Bah.The dogs are having fun. They've been out three times since I got up about 30 minutes ago. Buddy, being the teenager that he is, decided he needed to beat his sister outside, so he LEAPT over her as she was going out the door. Only problem was he didn't account for the snow. I now have a German Shepherd sized skid mark in the snow on the deck from where he slid head first across the deck after leaping over Dottie. :-PBack to the old grind today. I also need to answer a few questions. ;) Not to mention i still owe you Easter pics. :) Read more:Jingle Bells
I should be feeding the girl... 2007-04-12 14:09:00 instead of sitting here typing. :) She woke up and came down here about 15 minutes ago. I told her to give me a couple minutes and I'd help her with breakfast.Whoops. LOL She's happily watching Curious George anyway.Busy day all around here. I need to go pay the taxes/register the van now that they FINALLY sent our title. :-PJ has a school field trip (I think). It's on the calendar for today. Her Teacher didn't send a reminder tho, and J thinks it's next week. So, either I missed something or J's just mixed up. Either way, I'm sending her in her school shirt. LOLTonite is Kindergarten registration! Ack! I cna't believe I'm signing her up for REAL school already! Where did the time go??Best news! NO MORE SNOW! YAY!Have a great day, everyone!
Are you Geekier then me? 2007-04-12 14:01:00 My friend Bokjae had this up on his site. I thought it was a fun quiz. Hoe Geeky are YOU?I am 78% Geeky!!More Fun Quizzes at QuizPox.com
Photo Hunters 2007-04-14 19:36:00 Out here on the prairie we get a TON of wind. What better hobby to have than kite flying? :) Read more:Photo
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I'm Melting! 2007-04-18 03:23:00 Ok, maybe just the snow melted. :) It was mostly gone by Sunday. Totally gone yesterday. It hit 76 here! YAY!!!!Hope everyone had a nice weekend.The Hubster spent most of Sat on the phone, computer or both doing some work stuff. Thankfully that doesn't happen too often.Sunday we worked on cleaning up the yard and hung out outside. I pulled up some scary looking dandelions that were sprouting already (just leaves).Monday I did my shopping and we planned a picnic at the park for supper. That was really nice. the girls played and we ate and then took a little hike along the bike trail.Today I ran errands and brought some stuff to OUAC (where I ran into a friend and her two girls, that was a nice surprise!!). Picked Johanna up at school and then dropped what they didn't take off at a local shelter type place and then we ran through the DQ drive-by for lunch. They have a pretty good (and reasonably priced) kids meal there.I had to order a new battery for the Roomba. That arrived today. Th
What are you watching? 2007-04-23 00:53:00 What are you guys watching on TV these days?Seems like a few of our Favorite shows have started back up again and we have a full TV viewing Schedule again.ER started back up with new episodes last week. Big People, Little World started up again too.Runs House started on MTV. I love Run's House... for a multitude of reasons. It's funny as heck for one. I also love listening to their accents. I grew up in the town over from where they live, so I love hearing them, and seeing all the places they go. My Mom worked for years at the HS their oldest sun goes to.When they go to the mall it's "My Mall". In this last episode, JoJo and his friends were eating at one of my Dad's favorite places to go. I can remember sitting there years ago and eating supper with him. The batting cages they went to were in my hometown. It's fun and comforting all at the same time to see all these things on tv.In a weird way, it kinda makes me feel like I know them better.There's been a Planet Earth Marathon
I'm blaming the weather... 2007-04-24 16:53:00 Johanna was SO not motivated this am. I told her to go brush her teeth and 10 minutes later she still hadn't done it. 5 minutes before that I told her to get her shoes. She hadn't done that either.Talking to my neighbor at school this am, her girls are having the same kind of day.Quite frankly, so am I! LOLI took J to school and ran to the store. I realized after I got home yesterday that I had forgotten to get Bananas and pick up a loaf of bread to make garlic bread with tonite. So we did that.I get home, and I am greeted by Dottie.Now, I realize that being greeted by your dog is not THAT unusual, but this means that I had forgotten to lock her in her crate.Dottie is locked in her crate while we are out because Dottie likes to go food sampling in the Kitchen.So I do a quick scan of the kitchen on my way to let the dogs outside and happily note that everything seems ok, aside from the bag of chips on the floor. I think they just fell down.Let the dogs out, and hear a noise. A noise t Read more:weather
Ebates 2007-04-24 16:46:00 Do you all know about Ebates? A friend of mine was talking them up a while back and they offer your $5 just to sign up, so I signed up and then promptly forgot about it. LOLDunno if you guys know about ebates.com or not. I signed up a while ago and then forgot about it. LOLThis w/e I was wanting to make a purchase from a certain UK catalog company... I'm not easily influenced by their catalog mailing and offering of free shipping and a certain % off AT ALL. :ahem:I remembered someone saying that you should remember to shop through ebates w/them because you'd get an addition % off. I think it was only 5%, but hey. 5% is 5%!I really need to use ebates more often. Goodness knows I do enough online shopping. It really wouldn't take that much more of my time to check and see if the place I want to purchase from is an ebates member and I can save a little extra.You can click here to sign up: http://www.ebates.com/rf.do?id=32655517 if you are interested. Plus I get a little kickback if you
Tackle It Tuesday 2007-05-01 14:16:00 This is going to be a day long event here. So far I've put away a load of the girls' clothes, threw another one in the dryer and took down the sheers in the living room and our bedroom and are washing those. Next will be Johannas' curtains.I'm hoping to get the Kitchen floor Scooba'd and get the living room picked up while J is at school today. Just depends on Ava's desire for a nap. LOLI got the "Before" pics taken. I'll be back later with the "After" pics.I hope... LOLOk 12 hours later and I'm back with pics. lol It's been a long day! I didn't get to clean while J was at school as I had hoped, so I only managed to tackle the Living Room. Later I attacked some of the garage with the Shop-vac tho. That culminated with my having to crawl into our tipped over trash bin so I could retrieve a part I dropped in it while banging out the filter. LOLAnyway, here is my highly embarrassing before pic. A progress pic, and an After pic. I still need to clean off the trunk and the credenz Read more:Tuesday
Yikes! 2007-04-30 15:24:00 So the other week I was at the mall and I picked up a couple pairs of Sandals for Ava at Payless. They were BOGO 1/2 off. So, being the smart Mom I am, I got her 1 pair in a size 5 and another in a size 5.5, figuring we would be set for the summer or at least a couple months anyway.So I put her size 5's on this am, and I swear her feet grew overnight! Her toes are thisclose to hanging over the ends of the sandals now! ACK! They were NOT like that yesterday!At least I can be thankful we have a bigger pair on hand and Payless generally runs their BOGO sales pretty frequently, huh? ;)
So.... 2007-04-30 14:13:00 I was getting out of bed this am, and I realized something. It's Monday.I feel like I need one of those cute Kitten posters that says "I Don't Do Mondays".Speaking of Cute Kittens, anyone watching Acceptable TV? I forgot to catch last weeks episode to see if "Kitten Calendars" got voted through again.ANYWAY.... We need longer weekends. Ours was busy and relaxing all at the same time, if that was possible. I just wasn't wanting it to be back to the old grind again today.3 more weeks till school is done and I don't HAVE to get my butt up and dressed and driving to school.YAY!Of course, the next week Mom is coming for a visit, so we'll be going all over the place, and then the IL's are coming for a weekend and then we start swimming lessons, and then there's the plays in the park and library activities and park play dates and, and, and...So, ummm school starts in Aug and I can just throw J on the bus and I don't even have to get outta my jammies, did I mention that? LOL
Get Real: Bloggers Without Makeup 2007-04-29 21:29:00 Inspired by People Magazines "Stars without Makeup
", Steph over at Adventures in Babywearing decided to hold a little contest "Bloggers without Makeup".This really isn't a challenge for me, since I RARELY wear any makeup at all, but I wanted to play along anyway.So here I am, in all my natural glory. :)
T-ball 2007-04-29 20:15:00 So, J started T-Ball on Thurs. You know how you have to sign up for these things MONTHS in advance? Well, like good parents we did that.We were sure to ask her if she wanted play before signing her up. She said "Yes" and "Sign me up for whatever you want".So, we did.Problem is, while she can remember some minute detail from 3 years ago, she doesn't seem to recall agreeing to sign up for T-ball.:-/So, it's been interesting. We don't want to push her, yet she's signed up and needs to make an effort/stay committed. Plus she wants to sign up for Fall Soccer. So we told her she needs to do this and stick it out, or there will be no signing up for soccer.They had a practice yesterday as well. We left early and got her a new (pink) tball glove and a hat. She liked that.This am, we practiced hitting and a little catching. She likes hitting better, and I think she's a little afraid of catching 'cause she doesn't want to get hit in the face. Can't say as I blame her, but she still needs
Angela Simmons did not coin "Food Shoppin" 2007-04-29 20:08:00 So I was catching up on my recording of this weeks' "Runs House" and Angela
kept mentioning how she needed to go "Food Shoppin".Having not lived in NJ since like, 1992, I had totally forgotten about that phrase.It made me laugh. Eric was like, WHAT did she say? He had NEVER heard that phrase before.I was IM-ing with my friend, Cathy and was telling her about it. She grew up in NJ too, but hasn't lived there for a long while. She had totally forgotten about it as well.I got to thinking, that probably outside of the NY-NJ-CT maybe even PA area, that no-one probably uses that phrase and hearing it on TV they might think it's some new fangled hip-hop girl saying. LOLI also got to laughing about how it's apparently necessary in NJ to distinguish what kind of shopping you are doing... Mall Shopping, Clothes Shopping, Food Shopping, Car Shopping, etc. LOLI need to go message my cousins on MySpace and give them a good ribbing. :) Read more:Simmons
Photo Hunters 2007-05-05 17:23:00 Here's a pic from MY childhood. I'm the one in the stylin' sunglasses. ;) Read more:Photo
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I found pics! 2007-05-05 01:12:00 Here's my XT! Check out that printer too! Top pf the line and everything. muahahahahahahahaHere's Dad on his Laptop. This isn't the first one he had I don't think. So It's probably somewhat smaller than the original one. LOL
Happy Onlineversary to meeeeeeeeeeeeeee 2007-05-04 19:33:00 This month marks a HUGE event for yours truly. I have now been online for exactly 1/2 my life.In May of 1990, I was winding down the senior year of HS. My Dad came home one night with this Zenith (huge by today's standards) Laptop, which he then proceeded to set up on the kitchen table, hook up to our kitchen phone line and connect to something called "Prodigy".Being a good geeky girl, I was immediately hooked. :)All this eventually led to my getting my own phone line (only I would be getting my own line to dial in, and not to chat on the phone... LOL) and even better we got a home PC. A Zenith XT, that thing was smokin', let me tell you. CGA monitor and the whole bit! lolI'll have to see if I can find my picture of it someplace. LOL Of course I think by then we had switched to GEnie, after Prodigy tried ot charge people .25/per email after you hit your monthly quotient (which I'd hit in like a day) LOL Anyone out there remember that? lolSo yeah, it's been 17 years! Yikes. Mayb Read more:Happy
Scavenger Hunt- Day 4 2007-05-04 18:02:00 1) Find 2 blogs that are participating in the hunt that have something in common. This could technically have hundreds of answers and you can be as creative as you want. Make sure you post on both of them. Tell us what you found and what they have in common.I picked #'s 22 and 23 on the list. :) Firstly, they are right next to each other on the list, so that makes for something in common right there (lol), plus they are both participating in the scavenger hunt.;) They are both Momma's. They both visit 5minutesformom, and they are both a little crispy! :)2) State a fact about me, Amy. There are many on this blog. No duplicate answers can be allowed. This should be pretty easy!Amy is a nurse. :) Read more:Scavenger
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